This position is located in the National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Pllanning and Programming for Service Delivery (OPPSD), Office of Science and Technology Integration (STI) with one vacancy in Silver Spring, MD. This position is also announced under vacancy number NWS-OSTI-24-12256735 DE, which is open to all US Citizens or Nationals. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

The working title for this position is Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Scientist. As a Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Scientist, you will perform the following duties: Provide authoritative advice in project development and execution in supporting the NWS SBES Program Director in initiatives to ensure integration of the latest SBE research across NWS, particularly for projects in seasonal-to-sub seasonal (S2S) timescales, coordinating across NWS portfolios to ensure concentrated effort on all SBES research activities. Develop and conduct program evaluations and policy analyses to identify and understand SBE scientific and technological needs, improvements and preferences of NWS, especially regarding seasonal forecasts. Assists in the design, analysis, implementation, and interpretation of SBES studies whether initiated by the Agency, and/or other public, private and academic sector sources, and ensures SBES research issues are scientifically defined and focused on improving NWS research operations, particularly for the development of seasonal forecasts. Ensure strong connections across NWS, particularly in strengthening connections between modelers, forecasters, and users of S2S data and products. This includes work across a myriad of SBES program needs, including defining, planning, and supporting the execution and implementation of SBES activities necessary to reach NWS product and service improvement goals in a timely and efficient manner.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: This position has a positive Education Requirement in addition to at least one year of Specialized Experience OR substitution of education for experience OR combination (if applicable) in order to be found minimally qualified. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. You MUST meet the following requirements: A. Degree: behavioral or social science or related disciplines appropriate to the position. OR B. Combination of education and experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of one or more of the economic, behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. OR C. Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrated that the applicant has acquired knowledge of one or more of the economic, behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field. NOTE: Related Discipline:i.e. economics, psychology, political science, social geography, etc.; SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements above, applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Assisting in design, analysis, implementation and interpretation of Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) studies; and Participating in the formulation and implementation of scientific policies or procedures. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation.

College Transcript: Submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., bio 101, math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

Transcripts

--If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide all unofficial transcripts (undergraduate, graduate, etc.) by the closing date of this announcement or you will be disqualified from further consideration. Please ensure that all documentation is legible.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Karen James
• Phone: 301-578-6274
• Email: [email protected]